How To Install deltarpm on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install deltarpm on Fedora 34.
What is deltarpm
A deltarpm contains the difference between an old and a new version of a rpm, which makes it possible to recreate the new rpm from the deltarpm and the old one. You don’t have to have a copy of the old rpm, deltarpms can also work with installed rpms.
We can use yum or dnf to install deltarpm on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install deltarpm.
Install deltarpm on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install deltarpm using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install deltarpm
Install deltarpm on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install deltarpm using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install deltarpm
How To Uninstall deltarpm on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the deltarpm package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove deltarpm
deltarpm Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/applydeltarpm
/usr/bin/combinedeltarpm
/usr/bin/makedeltarpm
/usr/bin/rpmdumpheader
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f/a88838f7f42ba5e2202f10a2ab5c93b59d1c5b
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8/5bbe47506d1c31a459c95ce34e2e3e4a883c89
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/4ffa24bee682e4e51fb5fd5e0a7edfba2bb3c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/8e0bcaacd6c5bac380fad74c2b25ba202e2c68
/usr/share/doc/deltarpm
/usr/share/doc/deltarpm/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/deltarpm/README
/usr/share/licenses/deltarpm
/usr/share/licenses/deltarpm/LICENSE.BSD
/usr/share/man/man8/applydeltarpm.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/combinedeltarpm.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/makedeltarpm.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install deltarpm on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
